A Note on the Concept of Organizational Change
Abstract
A Note on the Concept of Organizational Change SAGE Publications, Inc.1968DOI: 10.1177/000169936801100104 Erik Johnsen 1. P"rpose of the Paper The aim of these lines is to analyze organizational change in terms of a specific model of an organization formulated by the author.2) My argument for publishing so short an article is that I find the basic concept of organizational change to be very well delineated by this particular model. Organizational change is in any respect tied to the model or set of models that the analyst exposes. As these organization models are normally constructed in order to delineate something else than organizational change it is rather incidental what organizational change comes to mean according to such models. This also holds true for the present model. The aim of my model-construction is to enable a man-machine organization to steer deliberately towards attainment of several goals. Explicit change-procedures are built into this model-structure in terms of search- and learning activities. Therefore I venture to take a subset of this modelinformation out of its natural context for a specific discussion of the concept of organizational change. 2. Alodelelenients and -relatioJ1S Our model of an organization is made of three sets of